Manual

Before You Begin: Installation Prerequisites and Recommendations
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5 Before You Begin: Installation Prerequisites and Recommendations
Before installing Sentral ensure that:
 if you are using Microsoft® Internet Information Services (IIS) as your Sentral Web server, install IIS
before installing Sentral FTP Server and Sentral Server. See 5.1 “Installing Microsoft IIS” below for
details.
 you have installed a database. 5.2 “Installing Database Server” below identifies Sentral Database
requirements and provides database and VM-related recommendations.
5.1 Installing Microsoft IIS
Perform this procedure only if you are using IIS as the Web server in your Sentral environment.
NOTE:
Ensure that you install all of the features—including all lower-level features included in the
parent features—that are shown below.
The steps below show how to install IIS features on a computer running Windows 2008 Server, R2 or
Windows 7 Enterprise operating system.
1. Click Start > Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows features on or off.
2. Expand Internet Information Services.
3. Expand Web Management Tools and select all lower-level features.
4. Expand World Wide Web Services and select all lower-level features.
5. Select Internet Information Services Hostable Web Core.
6. Click OK. Windows displays a message while it makes changes and then minimizes the dialog box.
You can now continue to install a database server.
5.2 Installing Database Server
ClearCube Sentral supports MS SQL 2005 and MySQL 5.5.24. The database server must be installed and
available before installing Sentral Server. The database server can be installed on a remote computer or
on the same computer as Sentral Server. For large deployments, ClearCube recommends installing the
database server on:
 a different computer than the one running Sentral Server, and
 a computer with database redundancy or high availability.